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With web-based logistics software existing potentials in supply chain execution can be used

(dispo Who is Who Logistik 01.2006) By means of Internet-based logistics software idle potentials within the Supply Chain Execution get exploited. - Complex markets within more and more global supply chains are the future challenge for companies. One possible answer to this situation can be found, for example, in cross-company logistics processes. Thereby it is on the one hand possible to reduce costs and on the other hand to bring about quality improvements. The tasks which are embraced by the term Supply Chain Execution take up the majority of logistics costs. Amongst these tasks are all planning and monitoring tasks from the fields transport-, procurement-, freight cost- and loading device management. The linking of these fields of duty unearths significant saving effects and quality enhancements. These benefits affect the overall business performance and also specifically the individual functional areas. In the end the quality of the applied IT-solution can be measured by the continuity of the Supply Chain Execution. Therefore, Magna Steyr Automotive Engineering from Graz (A), the largest global automotive supplier, who develops and manufactures vehicles on order, has redesigned the entire process of the transport management and has introduced a continuous IT-solution.